The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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On The Track
And Off flu
Track
CROMWELL HAS tT LAST |!tle?ate
The Railroad Troubles Come I hick
And fast South of Enid.
Chickasha Dec. 6:—The Rock Island
drew the usual bu.ioh of wrecks and
minor mishaps out of the bag this week.
No;... of them were serious but much
delay in trains resulted.
A freight car was off the track a
Union City and on the Mangum line the
local had a derailmant which made the
passenger due here at 7:30 over five
hours late.
Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning
the tender on northbound passenger
No. 12 derailed at Addington, the
trucks of the mail car leaving the
track, making it necessary to detour
trains over the Waurika line.
Soft condition of track is assigned as
the cause of the trouble.
DONE SOMETHING G000
FOB HIS COUNTRY.
Led better
Says State Of
Oklahoma Supreme.
Railroad Companies Ackaowledge Spirited Debate On The Power
ir
The Discrepency And Agree
To Give Oklahoma
Relief from
Excursion
Ratts.
PATENT FOR
PUBLIC SQliAtE
RECEIVED.
The patent to the court house square
was received yesterday and immediate-
ly filed for record, with the register
of deeds. The patent conveys 3.98
acres. The land is conveyed to Gar-
geld county without any restrictions
whatever.
The county commissioners will grade
and other wise improve the square just
as soon as they can get the ground
cleared. As soon as the new court
house is completed the old building will
be sold and removed.
Of The Convention In Decid-
ing On Membership.
Guthrie, Dec. 6: The entire morn-
ing session of yesterday .is occupied
with the discuisi.m of the right3 of the
convention to decide a contest case.
Mr. Kornegay who had the floor at the
time of adjournment last night was al-
lowed to resui his speech and he con-
tinued along the same lines as his last
night's talk. He insists that the body
that is to create the state of Oklahoma
has not the inherent legal right to de-
cide who shall constitute its member-
Guthrie, Ok. Dec. 6-Oklahoma ship-
pers are promised early relief from ex-
i cessive export grain rates, local rates
on all commodities and local and inter-
state rates on coal. The concession
comes from railroad companies, follow
ing instructions by Governor Frantz to
„ ,, .. | ship and that the only solution of the
W. O. Cromwell, the attorney general , .
several months ago, directing the lat
ter to begin action against all railread
companies violating the rates guaran
teed in their charters.
theory that the state of Oklahoma was
of internal
The Loewen—Webb block is now
to the fourth floor.
up
John Buekels and Ike Herschfeld
lobbied the convention at Guthrie yes-
terday.
The mud in Enid last week varied in
depth from 8 inches to six feet in the
holes.
KELSO FOR
The campaign is never over with the
Hon. Tom Doyle of Perry. He has net
missed a day's attendance at the con-
vention. He is not on the pay roll
cither.
Bob Neff has become very much ex-
cited and sweaty over the constitution-
al provision against the selling of the
school land. Bob seems to be more
scaroy over the school land disposition
than school land fellows themselves.
matter lies in the courts ordained by the
federal government. He quoted co-
_ j pious legal authority and his speech
showed the careful study and thought
, , , -j . that he had placed upon the subject.
A new rate schedule was promised 11 tr r
day at a conference, attended by Mr. Upon the conclusion of the speech of
Cromwell, George T. Nicholson, third ; Mr- Kornegay, Mr. Ledbetter gained
vice president, J. E. Gorman, freight jthe fW and Proceeded to support the
traffic manager, and J. R. Koontz, gen-
eral freight agent, all of the Atchison, suPreme in its functions
Topeka * Santa Fe railroad, and W. B. K°vernment and that as the representa-
tives of the citizenship of the new
Biddle, vice president of the ( hitago, gtat# the members of the constitutional
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad company, convention were the authorized repre-
„. . . . . .. .4, ... ; sentativei of the supreme power in th e
These official* said that they ara *state—the voice of the people. Mr
ng to make a revision of rates at once ' Ledbetter argued that the convention
, .... . ... j in ...i needed no inherent power to settle
and within tne next ten days will sub- w^0 should be members of the
mit a new schedule to Mr. Cromwell at body.
a meeting to be held in Kansas City. -
The above press message indicates
the railroad companies have come to
the conclusion that the people of Okla-
homa must he treated justly. Attorney
General Cromwell has certainly done
his whole duty in bringing the illegal
practice or eutrageous railroad rates
charged in this Territory, to a stop.
However, it should be understood by
the people that his assistant, Col. Chas.
J. West of thii city, one of the great-
est students of law and persistant
searchers of law in the territory, had
much to do > with the success of the
various suits the Attorney General has
brought. The entire business commu-
nity as well a* the people are thankful
to Messrs. Cromwell and West for the
great work in relief of the people.
M U (QBfta
i Mm of ((Motion.
No state in the Union has so many
natural advantages as has Oklahoma
and they are various sources and na-
ture. This being so it will require a
great amount of wisdom for us to get
the constitution that is due us to pro-
tect all those interests. We are of tli«
ILL BE LEF1
What Register McKnight Says of
the "Big Pasture ' Auction.
Lawton, Ok., Dec. 6.- Major H. D.
McKn.fht, register of the local land
office, said today:
"From present indications I think
that after all the irregular bids, the
duplicate bids, etc., are thrown out and
the awards of the opening are made,
not one-third of the land in the big
pasture will be subject to entry under
the rules and regulations of Secretary
Hitchcock. When this is ascertained
it is my opinion that Secretary Hitch-
cock will order the remaining land sold
at auction and that the sale will be in
the summer of 1907."
Only 1,200 bids had been made up to
noon. This is in a great measure due
to the fact that the trains have been
greatly delayed and no mail has been
received from the south since Sunday
evening. A petition was started yes-
terday asking that congress, the secre-
tary of the interior and President
Roosevelt make provision for the un-
successful bidders and that if there is
any land left after the opening that the
bidders who were unsuccessful have
the selection of land upon the market
at the minimum price of Jo per acre.
The leading democratic newspapers
of Greater Oklahoma have noted the
Wave's endorsement of Dr. M. A. Kel
so, for governor, and most of them
have spoken favorably of his candidacy
Dr. Kelso is not a stranger to the lead
ership of the demodratic party i* the
state. He is the only candidate for
governor in the western portion of the
state and if the western democrats
give him their undivided support he
will receive the nomination at the pri-
maries next March. Better, or more
reliable timber than Dr. Kelso for the
office of governor has not been men-
tioned in this campaign, his executive
ability is away above the average and
his record as a citizen and democrat is
clear and clean.
M
" ;?j
Made trom pure, grape eream ot tartar
Makts riome baking easy. Nothing
can be subs.liuted for it in making,
quickly and perfectly, delicate hot
biscuit, hot-breads, muffins, cake and
pastry. Insures the food against alum.
Ptiyc, Healthful, Relj&kle
NOTE.—If mixtures called baking powdrr ar«
offered > >u at lower urice. remembc*
they arc mostly made from alum, a
Metallic acid deleterioai to healtn.
PASSES FOR
FACTORIES.
Brick Yard News.
Lets see there will probably be 500
propositions offered to be engulfed in
to the constitution. It may take a day
to consider each proposition; 500 days
would throw statehood off a year and a ! opinion that the present convention will
half, or untill 1908. There is much produce for us one of the best constitu-
work ahead of that convention. tions that is in existence. This should
I be done and we believe they will give
Uristiau bciencv;. t0 us-
However, it may be too lengthy,
First Church of Christ Sci-! ,
| and superfluous and it may touch mat-
tntist, holds services in ite church
1 ters that should be left to the future
hall, west strie of Square, Wblte
building Sunday at II a. m. and Wed- j
good even though it may
i srlay at .8 p. ro. Sabbath school
filiowin; u orning service.
All welcome. Christian Science
U^rature can be bad at the
l .ce of Wf*r.Mr
Raised Their Ages
Hobart, Okla , Dec. 7. David Rich-
ardson, who married Miss Wanda
Blackburn, of Doxie, at this place
Thanksgiving day, has been arrested
for swearing falsely regarding hi age
Richardson is said to be sixteen and his
bride thirteen years of age. Both are
from Roger Mills county.
legislative law makers, but it will be
be burdened
with some matter likened unto the pre-
sent laws regulating the territorial
marines.
Messrs. J. G. Frazier, Alex. Harrison
and Percy Cowen, of Enid, have been
Guthrie visitors this week.
Although South America has about
twice the area of the United States it
has only half the population.
C. E. Huiter came over from Oklaho-
ma City yesterday and spent the day
visiting among his old time friends.
Tha Guthrie Leader mentions Dele-
gate Pittman as a possible candidate
for Congress in the first district.
REFLECTIONS.
It is said that John L. Sullivan will
take up farming.
Over 360,000 acres of land are devot-
ed to raising peanuts.
Don't waste your time; you'l need all
before you die.
The Review of Reviews saysJButtes
Mont., is a flowerless, grassless, god-
less town." But she's a Butte just
the same, .
Every rural free delivery box should
be placed on a neat post and made an
ornament instead of an eyeiore by the
roadaide.
For Lung
Troubles
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cer-
tainly cures coughs, colds,
bronchitis, consumption. And
it certainly strengthens weak
throats and weak lungs.
There can be no mistake about
this. You know it is true. And
your own doctor will say so.
The beat kind of a taitimonlal —
"Sold for over sixty years."
A
mad* by j. C. kyr Co.. Lowall, ii
tuanufeoturcrt of
) sarsaparilla.
pills.
hair moor.
yers
Keep th« bow l« r Riil r with Aver'a
Pills and thua hasten recovery.
If the Rock Island officials now tour-
ing the lines in Oklahoma will look
closely they will find only about
aound ties in rails length.
four
Up to yesterday evening 162 proposi-
tions had been presented for consider-
ation. Mr. Haskel carries the ele-
phant's check in introducing measures.
A couple of woman hid in a certain
hallway yesterday afternoon for several
hours with the intention of horse whipp-
ing a certain young man who certainly
did nat appear.
That keen eyed land specalator who
never missed a guess on land values
and never run up against a loosing deal,
Dr. Samule Evans, is down in the big
pasture looking for a good piece of land
to bid on.
President Roosevelt has the book
writing habit and he must have thought
he was writing a book entitled "What
I know about trouble in the United
States." It is the moat lengthy mes-
sage ever fired at Congress except one
or two. The president inadvertantly
set an awful lengthy example or pre-
cedent to our Oklahoma constitution
makers. Every member's propositions
are liable to be as lengthy as the mes-
a go.
It was the iatention of congress, ex-
cept in a few special exceptions, to en
tirely abolish the passes on all the rail-
roads. After tha law was passed the
railroads made the claim that passes to
newspapers were not free, because they
were paid for in advertising space, but
the Interstate Commerce Commission
ruled that newspaper men must pay
cash for their transportation and that
railroads must pay cash for advertising
space.
The Burlington road has adopted the
commission's view of the law, and has
issued a circular letter in which it
says:
"The interstate commerce act, as
well as other laws, seems to make dif-
ficult, if not prevent, the issue of pass-
es and fi>ee tickets to newspapers, and
as it is business-like that thf railroad
should pay cash and the newspaper pub-
lisher should receive cash for his ad-
vertising space, we have decided to fol-
low that plan. Commencing January 1
1907, we will pay cash for all advertis-
ing and iasue no pass or free tickets
whatever to newspapers.
"As heretofore, we expect liberal
patrons of the newspapers, especially
in those cities and towns located on our
road; and as quickly as details can be
arranged we shall present for considera-
tion a cash advertising contract for the
year 1907. With this in view, we re-
quest prompt return of enclosed slip
naming your rates."
The newspapers having circulation
enough to make advertising valuable
will have no reason to complain of this
change. The railroads have been gett-
ing the best of it because they have se-
cured cheap advertising.—Wichita
Eagle.
Salaries For
Stale Officers.
The Wave has been introduced to j The County Commissioners have con-
people from Carrollton, Mo. who are 1 tracted to sell the Enid Vitrified Brick
seeking a location for a wagon fac- & Tile Co. ten acres of the poor farm
ory. at $50 per ac.ae for a new location for
The Shoe Factory enterprise, which the Company's plant. The Company
failed, has learned the spirit abiding under the management of Edmund
here that any manufacturer of goods Frantz has contemplated a change
that requires the shipping of tne raw 0f location for some time. The
material any great distanoe is bound to company has more orders than it can
fail. Enid, Garfield County or Oklaho- fin right now. They are preparing to
ma does not produce the raw material manufacture brick the year round,
used in manufacturing wagons. Hick- which means expensive large enclos-
ory, oak or other hard wood used in the ures heated so that frost eannot touch
manufacturing of wagons would have the raw brick after the moulding prc-
to be shipped in from a great distance, cess_
burdening the factory with an expense it is believed by the company that
that could not overcome outside com- the new material in the new locatioa
petition. A saw mill in Enid would be will mak e better brick than the old
as practicle an a wagon faotory. We piace. Mr. Edmund Frantz must be
would have to ship the logs to the mill gjven credit with being an ever alert
as well as the heavy oak trees and steel pushing business man; he stops at no
for the wagon factory. Wichita fell trifling expense in making the brick
down on her railway car factory ewing pjant a success. The brick from the
to distance from the raw material
Our people must act sensible and en-
courage manfacture of all kin Is where
in the country produces the raw materi-
al. Enid is the acknowledged center
of the wheat belt of Oklahoma,
thus she is the natural location
for breakfast food facteriea of any de-
nomination. The city and surrounding
country pr^Huces an abundance of agri-
cultural products only, that can be used
in the manufacture of paper, alcohol,
breakfhst food, butter, canned fruit
and vegetables, beer, whiskey, etc.,
etc. The Wave has no encouragment
to offer a wagon factory as the raw
material is entirely too far away.
new location will be better than ever.
The business of tha Enid jPlaning
Mill has increased so rapidly that they
were compelled to erect another large
building. They are excavating for the
basement i n d ,vork will begin on the
build'n^ ,n_e. It will be 32x80 feet,
two strries and basement and will be
used as a ware house. They will move
their stock from their Grand Avenue
st ores to this building.
A Court House Test.
! Uncle Jake Admire of the Kingfisher
Free Press has once more bid good
bye to the newspaper business. He
h ritten his farewell several times
1 i tne past and this last effort may not
, be the last.
The Wave was requested to send a I A New York paper asks which is
reporter over to the new court house j wore to be depended on, the blonda
yesterday afternoonr to witness an or thebrurette. For brainy mental
inspection of the cemeat floor work, balance the brunette every time. The
All reporters being busy at the time, blonde is lightheaded.
never appeared. In inquiry at the ~
County Clerk s office this morning we ; The last surviving widow of a Rev-
found that the county commissioners olutionary soldier has died at the age of
had not authorized any inspection of ^ gg years. When she was married to
the contractor s work as to the merits goijjy,. he was 75 and she 22 years
of the cement floor work, as far as the 0|(j
record goes, hence, we are at a loss to
know what prompted the test. How- wiU be a damage to the city if the
ever, we understand that the test of street railway tracks cannot be laid
the experts found the floor all right. ^ ahead of the street paving. The next
franchise granted should provide for
Prepare for Harvesting
immediate action.
A Little Up In "G" For Sora« i
Officers. To« High for
MembtrsOf The Legis-
lature.
Delegate J. H. Chambers of Atoka
today introduced a resolution, provid-
ing that the officers of the new state
shall receive the following saleries per
annum, taking into consideration the
fact that these offices will be provided
by the constitutional convention: Gov-
ernor, $6000: commissioner of state and
school lands, $2,500: supreme court
judges, $5000 each, district court judges
$3000 each; and railroad expenses;
members of legislature, $8 per day and
ten cents per mile; county judge* $2,
500 per annum; count, attorneys $2,0C0
per annum.
Just time to get your repair
work done before harvesting
begins.
j*ET ONE OF OUR >
M. L. Turner, one of the wealthiest
bankers of Oklahoma and Oklahoma
City, has announced himself as a can-
didate for United States Senator on
the democratic side of the ticket.
Turner would make a handsome looking
Senator. He and Major Whittinghill
would make a beautiful pair of Sen-
ators. Mr. Turner has the persuasive
Hand-Sewed t~iarness that has made many Senators.
is the
quality
best made,
considered,!
and
the
CHEAPEST
Fred Luft
A Kansas City physician has discover-
ed that high collars worn by women
produce cancer of the throat, and the
j Hopkins Journal adds that low-necked
, dresses produce pneumonia, corsets pro-
duce heart disease and shortness of
J breath, long skirts gather up germs of
all infectious diseases, thin soles pro-
| duee consumption, and tight shoes
; tause the toes to grow together, and
looking at bright millinery causes sore
eyes. Women should be careful about
these things.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1906, newspaper, December 13, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112526/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.